A meeting arranged to buy a gun in Seneca, South Carolina, ended in deadly gunfire on the evening of November 8, 2020. Christopher Hunter Todd, 20, of Pickens, was found with fatal gunshot wounds to his chest on Tribble Street; he died at the scene just after 7 p.m. A second participant, 17-year-old Zema Darnell Fling of Seneca, was also shot and was transported but died in an ambulance en route to the hospital.

Seneca police say the two had arranged the meeting for the purpose of a gun sale and that an altercation erupted during the transaction, producing the exchange of gunfire. When officers arrived, one male was on the ground and the other across the road. Investigators state both individuals involved are deceased; no information about other suspects or arrests has been released.

Todd was remembered as an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting and fishing and worked as a welder and machinist. He is survived by his parents and three brothers.

If anyone has information about the events on Tribble Street that evening, please share what is known.